Some people have the ability to emotionally manipulate others. They can skillfully pretended they're a genius, even though they're faking it. They can ruin a business while their boss congratulates them for doing a great job. They are incredibly dangerous.

Monthly Archives: December 2012

Way to embrace new technology. First, JavaScript is one of the best pure OO languages out there. Second, Node.js represents the future of web technologies. I am a senior PHP dev and have recently jumped on the Node.js bandwagon. While Apache is a solid and stable technology, it's very much antiquated in both its design and capabilities. Look at the benchmarks for Apache vs. Node.js as a web server. PHP (and other established languages) may reign supreme for large-scale web apps for the foreseeable future, but for smaller projects, newer projects and APIs, Node.js may be the best new technology out there.

I would equate this guy to all of the old-school Microsoft developers who thought (and many somehow still think) that PHP & MySQL would never be able to scale for larger sites like, oh I don't know... Facebook? Twitter? It's amazing that I still find MS devs who laugh at PHP and are stuck thinking it's still what it was in 3.x.

I'm sure there will always be places for guys like the author of this blog, but it really feels like he'll be left behind in the next movement of web technologies.

I am a senior web developer and i have worked on different technology like C#, Asp, Vb, java and some of the experiance on Php. But node.js is a new web technology and now days is very usefull for small type of project, new one project, and for Api its great usage in there type of project.

I have been programming PHP for 8 years...and not your speghatti code...I think you are just insecure about nodejs and shunning it without giving it a chance...

"Node.js is single-threaded only. You use non-blocking calls and callback functions. In these days of multicore servers, why would anyone design a language to be only single-threaded?"

Did it occur to you that you are a retard and you don't know how to scale nodejs to multiple cores, and even take advantage of hyperthreading with kernel tuning?

PHP is awesome but the prefork MPM doesnt scale and the other MPM doesnt work with most of the libraries, so if you require concurency Nodejs is the way to go...If you are just making a website PHP is the way to go, if you are making a big data scalable high simultaneous hit application nodejs is the way to go.

I've only ever been asked for SSN (at a pre-offer stage...once there's an offer, they'll get it from your W4 and I9 forms) by recruiters twice. I didn't give it to either of them, but it's no coincidence that the same firms also helped poison my reputation in the local business community by sending my resume to clients without asking me first (which thus caused me to be double-submitted at a few companies, and thus barred for life from ever working at those companies).

If another one ever asks, I'm hanging up the phone, or walking out of the office. No recruiter _needs_ your SSN. The employer's HR department needs it once they make an offer, for tax reasons, but until that stage, don't give it out.

The sleazy headhunters demand the SSN, so it's a way of filtering out the sleazy ones.

Sometimes, employers do a credit check or background check. In that case, the offer should be conditional on passing the background check, and you should give it then.

The sleazy headhunters also demand meeting you first. I've gotten jobs through headhunters, but never through one who wanted to meet me first.

You are a freaking moron and a tool. People join the military because they buy into the propaganda about freedom or other such bullshit, or they are hostile belligerent dumb fucks looking to kill. Some of them join because it is a cultural thing in the sense that their dad and grandpa were warriors. Most really don't think about it as thinking isn't a skill highly valued in a warrior; following orders is.

You don't defend my ass you dumb fuck. You are cannon fodder for U.S. military industrial corporate profit. Read Smedley Butler's essay about what a fool he was. You don't deserve a disability check you deadweight piece of shit. You deserve to be hanged for your crime.

The country has been overrun by people like Hitler, or Stalin. If you recall uncle Joe was our ally and Hitler had much support among our conservatives and our business community. Our war criminals in charge are no different than Hitler or Stalin except that they run a much more costly more well armed military machine.

As for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, why do you lump him in with Hitler or Stalin? Who has Iran ever attacked? The only reason our war criminals in charge don't want Iran to have a nuke is because that is the only effective deterrent against a U.S. attack.

Some people do go to war to get rich. They are often called General or Admiral. Most that go to war to get rich are among our wealthiest corporations. Arms dealers and other war profiteers make billions because dumb fucks like you go kill for them.

Until people like you wake up and realize that you are part of the problem the world will never have peace. While some of us are busy creating new things and fixing old things and making the world more peaceful and beautiful, all you create is death, destruction, chaos, pain and hatred. You are truly an unevolved piece of shit. I hope you die a slow painful death.

I prefer "no swearing", although I agree with the other points you make.

This is very interesting topic. And to you Anonymous Coward, I like the way you laid down your opinion about this. And I was so surprised that these things are actually happening inside the government. This should be given enough priority and attention.

Wow, you are getting a lot of hate mail and people arguing against you because you are stating simple facts plainly. Hang in there. Your logic is sound and your articles reasonable.

A lot of it is for old posts, especially the node.js one.

I'm looking at job ads. When I see requirements for things like Design Patterns, Agile, or Scrum, I know the employer is clueless. Unfortunately, the large volume of clueless people have driven the competent people out of the market.

I no longer look for jobs and work for myself. I hate recruitment. It makes my skin crawl. I have enough money to survive.

A little while I got contacted by a dedicated recruiter working for a tech company. I hadn't applied to this company. In fact they asked me to apply about 5 years ago. I did back then and never heard back from them. In effect their second contact was predestined to fail as taking 5 years to give interview feedback is bound to piss someone off.

Anyway after finding out about the interview process, it seems they wanted me to write my interview answers on an Internet web-page not protected by a password or https or anything really. The Internet page had my name in bold at the top.

It is quite easy to get bitten. A page isn't really secure if it can be accessed just by guessing its URL. Plus there are robots crawling the Internet that make both permanent and temporary copies of anything they find. The Internet archive crawls the Internet and anything it finds will be stored permanently.

Call me old-fashioned, but I thought interviews were supposed to be private.

The company wanted to test me in computer languages I hadn't used for 7 years. I told the recruiter I was programming in different languages now and that I was prepared to solve problems, but didn't want to be tested on syntax and precise library APIs. The recruiter ignored my request.

In essence they wanted to test me in computer programming languages I hadn't used for 7 years and then publish the results in a non-protected manner on the Internet.

Maybe nobody would guess the URL. Maybe nobody would see the results. Maybe nothing bad would have happened.

I am an experienced software developer who sells quality software and makes a living from it. Call me paranoid but I don't want to be rushing into writing some bad code and then having the whole world see it.

I cancelled the interview. What is your take on this? Was I being too careful or was I justified?

Why do you need a watch when everyone carries a cell phone with a built-in clock?

I suppose cell phones do emit some radiation and so it is safer to switch them off.

A watch is more convenient than taking my cell phone out of my pocket.

I also am offended by interview questions based on obscure language features. Most C++ technical tests have obscure questions on multiple inheritance, such as what happens when the two base classes have functions with the exact same name. I've never seen a C++ class that actually used multiple inheritance, especially not in the obscure twisted way of most interview questions.

My long-term goal is to start my own business. For now, I'm looking for a regular wage slave job.